Call me a cynic, but around this time next year (let's start calling it
twenty hundred NOW), the realisation will have dawned that the current
obsession with lists of the 100 greatest conductors, authors, pianists, dog
food manufacturers, whatevers has been caused by a clever marketing ploy
which wants everyone to believe that the century and the millennium begin
on 1 January 2000 instead of the real date, 1 January 2001. By July 2000,
they'll have admitted they got it wrong and we'll go through it all again.
Richard Pennycuick
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